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Let’s face it: theater artists sometimes find the resources, skills, and knowledge to master their own financial well-being hard to come by. In this informative talk by some of the field’s leading financial experts in the arts, participants can discover common mistakes and get the facts about long-term financial success as an artist or arts professional, get valuable tips on smart financial planning, the power of smart saving & protection strategies, pension facts, and best practices, and learn how to take action now for a successful financial future.

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NOSEJOB is an original theater work that examines the relationship between desire, seduction, consent, and masculinity. It weaves together narratives from a 9th century abbey, a contemporary college campus, and an imagined future where the patriarchy has crumbled. The piece was inspired by the story of Ebba, a nun who lived in Scotland circa 870 A.D.; when Viking invaders pillaged her abbey, she famously cut off her nose, an act of self-mutilation that she hoped would help her avoid being raped and ensure her ascent to heaven. It has been suggested that this is the origin of the saying, "cutting off your nose to spite your face". Nosejob explores how women who compensate for violent male behavior have continued to be glorified in the twelve centuries since.

The staging of intimacy is one of the most vital conversations in today’s theatre. Claire Warden, a professional intimacy director whose groundbreaking work includes the first use of these principles and techniques on Broadway (in the recent revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and the current production of Slave Play) leads this introduction to build a consensual-based artistic workspace and the discipline of Intimacy Direction. Through a mix of exercises and discussions, participants will learn to understand, communicate, and advocate for respect, safety, and consent, and to create authentic and specific stories of intimacy. Guided by the base of IDI’s Five Pillars, participants will learn tools and language to approach basic intimacy in communication and choreography.

The staging of intimacy is one of the most vital conversations in today’s theatre. Claire Warden, a professional intimacy director whose groundbreaking work includes the first use of these principles and techniques on Broadway (in the recent revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and the current production of Slave Play) leads this introduction to build a consensual-based artistic workspace and the discipline of Intimacy Direction. Through a mix of exercises and discussions, participants will learn to understand, communicate, and advocate for respect, safety, and consent, and to create authentic and specific stories of intimacy. Guided by the base of IDI’s Five Pillars, participants will learn tools and language to approach basic intimacy in communication and choreography.

Harold Pinter’s classic romantic drama Betrayal returns to Broadway in a hit production imported from London, where it was the highlight of the Pinter at the Pinter festival of the master’s work during the 2018-19 season. This story unfolds in reverse, following lovers from bitter end to the illicit, exciting first moment of their affair. Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Bergerac) directs a cast including Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Zawe Ashton (Velvet Buzzsaw) and Charlie Cox (Daredevil), all making their Broadway debuts.

Broadway star and Tony nominee Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, Finding Neverland, Waitress) comes to Carnegie Hall to sing a new program of theater and pop songs with the New York Pops orchestra, conducted by Steven Reineke.

Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei drew raves for her performance in Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2016. Now she brings that powerful portrayal to Broadway in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of this 1951 classic, often regarded as the rare romantic comedy in the Williams canon. Tomei plays Serafina, an Italian-American seamstress living in Mississippi who is devastated when her beloved truck driver husband dies. She enters a period of deep mourning, with her daughter Rosa’s company her only consolation. But three years later, Serafina finds her love life rekindled when she meets another truck driver. Trip Cullman (Choir Boy) directs.

Tony and Emmy winner Mary-Louise Parker (Proof, Weeds) returns to Broadway in this new thriller from playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, The Hallway Trilogy). In this Lincoln Center Theater/Williamstown Theatre Festival co-production, Parker plays an Ivy League writing professor who develops a complicated relationship with a gifted student played by Will Hochman. The play, which garnered critical acclaim in Williamstown last year, is directed by Tony winner David Cromer (The Band’s Visit).

Obie, Bessie, Doris Duke-winning ensemble UNIVERSES is comprised of writers and performers of color who fuse theater, poetry, dance, jazz, hip hop, politics, down home blues and Spanish boleros into moving, challenging and entertaining works for the stage that tour across the U.S. and internationally. In this rare workshop, artistic directors Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and Steven Sapp will share their creative practice with participants -- which is usable for directors, actors, writers, and designers -- to explore the ways cutting-edge technology can amplify the creative moment. Participants will make new work as part of the process, learning skills they can incorporate in their own work.

Fantasy, Greek mythology and superhero themes converge in The Lightning Thief, a downtown cult hit now coming to Broadway. In this rock musical based on the young-adult novel by Rick Riordan, preteen student Percy Jackson (Chris McCarrell of Les Miserables) discovers that he’s the son of the sea-god Poseidon, complete with powers he can’t quite control, and with powerful enemies to boot. He finds himself on a quest for Zeus’s lightning bolt, needing it to fight off monsters and prevent a war among the gods. The show, featuring 7 actors playing 47 characters, drew raves in its Off Broadway and out of town engagements, with the Chicago Tribune hailing it as musical with “one foot in Harry Potter and another in Dear Evan Hansen.” Rob Rokicki (Punk Rock Girl) wrote the music and lyrics, Joe Tracz (Be More Chill) penned the book, Patrick McCollum (The Band’s Visit) choreographs, and Stephen Brackett (A Strange Loop) directs.

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Renaissance man Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who’s also an acclaimed actor (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? onstage, Homeland on TV) returns to the Broadway boards as a playwright with Linda Vista, his new comedy about a middle-aged man, freshly scarred by divorce and trying to find his way in the world. Step one: moving out of his ex-wife’s garage. This Steppenwolf/Second Stage co-production is directed by Drama League Directors Project alum Dexter Bullard (Grace on Broadway and Letts’ Bug Off Broadway).

The powerful new play IKE, written and directed by 2019 Drama League Beatrice Terry Resident Director Molly Beach Murphy, follows a father and daughter who wake up one morning and nothing seems amiss, until they walk outside to find their house is the only one left standing. IKE takes place just after a storm that devastated the Texas Gulf Coast in 2008, and follows survivors as they try to make sense of a town reduced to rubble, a collapsing US economy and the heartbreaking, surreal, funny, devastating nature of what happens when life gets washed away in an instant.

Epic as it was, the Tony-winning drama All the Way didn’t tell the whole story of the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidency. Now a sequel, The Great Society, takes up the saga, beginning with LBJ’s triumph in the 1964 presidential race and continuing through the victories (the 1965 Voting Rights Act) and the tragedies (the Vietnam war, and assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.) of his first and last full term. Emmy and Olivier Award winner Brian Cox (Succession) takes on the role of LBJ, heading a cast of 17 that also includes Grantham Coleman (Much Ado About Nothing at The Public) as King, Tony nominee Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) as RFK, and Tony nominee Richard Thomas (The Little Foxes) as Hubert Humphrey. The Lincoln Center Theater co-production is directed by Bill Rauch (Allthe Way).

Scotland, PA makes a dark musical comedy out of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It’s based on the 2001 film of the same name, with music and lyrics by Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days). This Roundabout Theatre Company production is set in the titular small town in the 1970s, where a down-on-his-luck burger-joint manager is goaded by his ambitious wife into murdering his way into the American Dream. Directed by Lonny Price (Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill).

Rising playwright Jeremy O. Harris (Daddy) knows how to provoke controversy, and he’s bringing his knack for an uproar to Broadway with the transfer of Slave Play, a sold-out hit at New York Theater Workshop last year. The incendiary comedy-drama treats fascination with antebellum slaveholding culture as a kind of psychosexual fetish for both males and females, black and white, as the characters act out their perverse fantasies on a plantation that is not what it seems. The New York Times called Slave Play a “dazzling mix of satire and psychodrama.” Robert O’Hara (BLKS) directs.